Syntactic autonomy: Why there is no autonomy without symbols and how self-organizing systems might evolve them

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 901, Issue , 2000, Pages 207-223

  Rocha, Luis Mateus ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

COMPUTER MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CODE; MEMORY; ORGANIZATION; RNA EDITING;

EID: 0034059262     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06280.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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